Teaching euthanasia: the integration of the practice of euthanasia into the grief, death, and dying curricula of postgraduate family medicine training.
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Counseling↗
Biomedical subjects
G K Kimsma
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From a Dutch perspective: response to "Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the Australian Northern Territory" by Robert L. Schwartz (CQ vol 5, no 1)
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Ethics, Medical↗
Dutch euthanasia: background, practice, and present justifications.
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Advisory Committees↗
Acting or letting go: medical decision making in neonatology in The Netherlands.
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Decision Making↗
[The future of hospital ethics committees in the 90s: expansion of the circle].
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Ethics Committees↗
Clinical ethics in assisting euthanasia: avoiding malpractice in drug application.
The debate on the ethical permissibility of euthanasia in medicine has a corollary in the ethical application of drugs. The overall moral limits of medical treatment apply evenly to the moral acceptability of the pharmacological aspect of the act of euthanasia. The pharmacological aspect of the act is of ethical importance not only for the person requesting an active ending of his or her life, but also for the grieving family.
Defensive Medicine↗
[Medical ethics education in the United States and The Netherlands].
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Cross-Cultural Comparison↗
Philosophy of medical practice: a discursive approach.
In spite of the seminal work A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice, the debate on the task and goals of philosophy of medicine still continues. From an European perspective it is argued that the main topics dealt with by Pellegrino and Thomasma are still particularly relevant to medical practice as a healing practice, while expressing the need for a philosophy of medicine. Medical practice is a discursive practice which is highly influenced by other discursive practices like science, law and economics. Philosophical analysis of those influences is needed to discern their effect on the goals of medicine and on the ways in which the self-image of man may be changed. The nature of medical practice and discourse itself makes it necessary to include different philosophical disciplines, like philosophy of science, of law, ethics, and epistemology. Possible scenario's of euthanasia and the human genome project in the USA and Europe are used to exemplify how philosopy of medicine can contribute to a realistic understanding of the problems which are related to the goals of medicine and health care.
Ethics, Medical↗